Record ID:
60598465 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18390514
  • Edinburgh, Scotland
Death:
  • 19200514
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Associated with:
  • Victoria
Fields of activity:
  • cryptogamic botony
Occupations:
  • architectural draughtsman botanist botanical artist
Used for:
  • Bastow, Richard Austin, 1839-1920
Notes:
  • Richard Austin Bastow was born in Edinburgh in 1839, arriving in Tasmania, Australia in 1884. Originally an architectural draughtsman he took up botany as a hobby and moved to Victoria, eventually specialising in cryptogamic botony, working on mosses. Bastow was a keen member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. He died in 1920 in Melbourne, Victoria.
  • [Detached cottage Jolimont], 1913 Sep title page (R.A. Bastow)
Local system number:
  • (VSL)11490478
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc